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To honor International Working Women’s Day March 8, New York State United Teachers released a women in labor history timeline. NYSUT is a federation of more than 1,200 local unions, each representing its own members. It is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, the AFL-CIO, and Education International, with more than 20 million members world wide.
The timeline includes:
1765
The first society of working women, the Daughters of Liberty, is organized as an auxiliary of the Sons of Liberty, a workingman's association.
1824
Women workers strike for the first time, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. 102 women workers strike in support of brother weavers protesting the simultaneous reduction in wages and extension of the workday.
1825
The first union for women only formed: The United Tailoresses of New York.
1899
The National Consumers League is formed with Florence Kelley as its president. The League organizes women to use their power as consumers to push for better working conditions and protective law for women workers.
1903
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones leads a protest march of mill children, many of who were victims of industrial accidents, from Philadelphia to New York.
November 14, at the AFL convention in Boston, women unionists unite to form the National Women's Trade Union League and elect Mary Morton Kehew president and Jane Addams vice-president. The National Women's Trade Union League is established to advocate for improved wages and working conditions for women.
1909
"Uprising of the 20,000" female shirtwaist workers in New York State strike against sweatshop conditions
2007
Arlene Holt Baker is named executive vice president by the AFL-CIO Executive Council, becoming the first African-American to be elected to one of the federation's three highest offices and the highest-ranking African-American woman in the union movement.
2008
Randi Weingarten, Antonia Cortese and Lorretta Johnson are elected to the top leadership positions in the American Federation of Teachers. It's the first time three women hold the top posts in AFT, whose membership is more than 70 percent female.
Click here to view the entire timeline.
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